On 3/1/26 3:47 PM, Nicola wrote:
Hi, I have been thinking about this in a while, and I am now convinced that we should aim at a 4.4.0 release which just drops support for old libraries not available or deprecated in modern OSs/distributions.
Hum.
We can rename and
sedthe version for the current 4.4 branch, but this will ease many of the efforts which are draining our energies to keep compatibility, and at the same time if we need minor bugfixes in the 4.3 branch, we can add them for dinosaurs which still require old libraries.
I don't object to a significant change in backwards compatibility in concept.
What do you think? I think that any such significant change in backwards compatibility should likely be done at a major version number. So how about 5.x instead of 4.4.x
Just my opinion.
-- Grant. . . .